puzzled - Story 108743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind was still whipping around, but it seemed almost…taunting. Emily stood at her window, arms crossed, staring at the chaos next door. The birch, Mrs. Henderson’s favorite, was down. A splintered mess.

She blinked slowly. The whole thing seemed…strange. The way it had fallen, blocking the walkway. The sound of the collapse, which she hadn't heard until after the fact, felt unreal.

Emily leaned closer, her brow furrowed. She replayed the previous evening's conversation with Mrs. Henderson, a discussion about the tree’s health. Had the woman known this was going to happen? The thought felt unsettling.

Emotion: puzzled

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion puzzled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 puzzled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the puzzled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the puzzled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.453
`🤔`	0.421
`🤔`	0.402
`🧐`	0.328
`a`	0.294

Suppressed:

`ecstatic`	-0.265
`gladly`	-0.238
`swiftly`	-0.237
`alleviate`	-0.234
`wholeheartedly`	-0.232